Hi, Steve - On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:45:10PM -0400, SteveW wrote: > Hey, Ben, how did you weather the storm? Your normal anchorage or did you > move the boat to someplace else.
I was very, very lucky: I've already started my cruise south, and was sitting in Chesapeake City (still there right now) when this happened. The eye went right over us, and... we got about 25kt gusting 35 - at least according to the Army Corps of Engineers weather station that's located about 500 yards from us. Their data is posted to NOAA/NDBC, and available real-time on the Net. All the heavy-duty stuff was to the NE of the eye. In any case, though, it wasn't the wind that did the damage - at the height of it, they were reporting 57mph gusting 72 at JFK; it was the water. Being at the top of these two bays, and in the middle of a canal, we only got about 3 feet extra. You guys got the whole buildup that came up the coast... that long fetch is just murder. By the same token, I suspect - although most of it is a SWAG and a prayer - that your boat is OK. Since all that stuff cam from the south, and you've got a big chunk of land in that direction, you just might have made out fine. That's certainly my big wish for you! We had been invited by a local family - a Coast Guard Auxiliary volunteer who is also a sailor - to spend the night at their place, about a block away from the boat, and took them up on it. Overall, it was the most peaceful hurricane passage, especially one that went right over. My crew now thinks of me as a minor (or perhaps a major) Deity, able to produce luxurious quarters out of thin air on a moment's notice... > The phones are down in Long Island (not to mention power, trees, and general > devastation) so I haven't a clue whether or not I still have a boat. YouTube has a number of videos of the area from Oyster Bay and Eaton's Neck; most of them don't look like anything bad. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KnL7MdX1vo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irTuttLlc44 Very cute little girl doing the reporter act :) - and showing the water (relatively calm) in OB: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1M5CaourkU Most "violent" thing I can find is an Eaton's Neck video, showing waves breaking on a bulkhead and spray shooting up about 10'. I'd estimate maybe 35kt gusting 50, no more than that. Another video from Kings Park Bluff at 11am shows 2'-3' seas in open water on Long Island Sound. > At this point, first of > all, we're stranded in Manhattan at home (bridges are closed and tunnels are > flooded) and even if we could get to Queens I doubt the roads are clear out > to the Island and Oyster Bay. It may well be a couple of days before I'm > able to either connect with the yard and/or drive out to see what's what. Here's hoping for pleasant surprises! > I've lived here my entire life, all 69 years of it, and never saw such a > storm or destruction, especially here on Manhattan!!! 4' of water on 1st > Avenue and 95th Street??? And in lower Manhattan, around the Battery, it's > the first time since a major storm in the late 1800s where the Hudson and > East Rivers actually met!!! Just to give you an idea, the measured storm > surge for that storm was 11+ feet. Sandy's surge was 13+ feet!!! Just insane. I can only imagine what it will take for the recovery. Sheepshead Bay is just wiped out; all of the marinas there are totally destroyed. Coney Island beach looks like a junk pile, with tons of floating garbage left on it by the waves. Incredible. > If you had access to a TV you would have seen water pouring down into the > Brooklyn Battery Tunnel like it was coming off a spillway!! Just awful. Steve, all I can do is wish you guys the best of luck; all my hopes and prayers are with you. Ben -- OKOPNIK CONSULTING Custom Computing Solutions For Your Business Expert-led Training | Dynamic, vital websites | Custom programming 443-250-7895 http://okopnik.com http://twitter.com/okopnik _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list Liveaboard@liveaboardonline.com To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to liveaboard-j...@liveaboardonline.com To unsubscribe send an email to liveaboard-le...@liveaboardonline.com The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
